Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Suicide Note and Einstein's Monsters -- will find that he outdoes himself in London Fields. It could even be said he sometimes undoes himself, with his verbal brilliance and command of literary technique. No matter. As an uninhibited high-energy performance, as a bold conception of a world tumbling toward a loveless void, this British best seller is destined for a large and divided readership...
...controlling the growth of their strategic nuclear arsenals in 1969, only two limited treaties have been signed, the last one in 1979. East-West negotiations on reducing conventional armies in Europe began in Vienna and have yet to reach any agreements. Members of the European Community have been working toward economic integration, scheduled for 1992, since the Treaty of Rome was signed...
...four victorious Allies of World War II, which retain some legal rights in Germany because no peace treaty has ever been signed, ran an almost continuous series of bilateral and multilateral talks in side rooms, corridors and hotel suites. They focused on how to impose order on the rush toward unification and reassure the nations that are most unsettled by the prospect. They agreed, said British Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd, on "a framework for avoiding free-fall...
Arguments, no matter how logical, are unlikely to ease the Germanophobia that still afflicts Europe. But such anxieties are fortunately not driving the governments of East and West in the wrong direction. They are not trying to stop the movement toward unification. All have formally upheld the German right to self-determination and have pushed to the back of their minds the dark shadows of two world wars. They have promised to unite what they hope will be a new Germany. One way to make certain that the result is a European Germany will be for the Europeans to complete...
...from Columbus is stuck with a hero's biography. His father Bill was a sparky middleweight who funneled his dreams into young Buster. Another inspirer, Buster's manager John Johnson, helped steer his fighter through recent family tragedies -- especially the death of his mother Lula last month -- and toward a bout with Tyson. Boxing savants expected it to be one more anonymous sacrifice to the Kong of sport. But Douglas had strength, stamina and grace. And he lacked what other Tyson victims have brought into the ring: fear of an "Iron Mike" mugging...